Paul Hertel (b. 1953) is named as an Austrian composer, music maker, and conductor. His works are performed in a lot of countries, and at such festivals as "Aspekte Salzburg", "Styrian Autumn" “Huddersfield”, “Festival de Ville d’Avray”, "Austria Today" etc. For a long time, Hertel worked as a theater composer and music director at different stages like Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz, Vienna, Graz, Schwäbisch Hall, etc. And as a composer of Film Music and operas, for instance, Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Musicologist Ona Jarmalavičiūtė talked about the journey of life, the subtleties of the music composing process and the part of the musician in Vienna.